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sergtk
sergtk

Reputation: 10974

How to use Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection in the console application?

On the page Non-DI aware scenarios for Data Protection in ASP.NET Core I find the code that is intended to be a console application.

It is unexpected for me because console application references to ASP.NET Core library:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection;

When I tried to run it, I expectedly got an error message about missing assembly.

I asked Microsoft about this https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/17098. But I just got the come-off answer, I just got the reference to the page which is upper in the content: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/data-protection/introduction?view=aspnetcore-3.1#package-layout

When I run the code in the ASP.NET app, the following statement dataProtectionProvider.CreateProtector("Program.No-DI") returned Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.KeyManagement.KeyRingBasedDataProtector.

Which library contains KeyRingBasedDataProtector?

I included the package https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.Abstractions/, but it expectedly does not contain implementation.

In general, are ASP.NET libraries are suitable to use in console applications?

After all, how to run the code from the page Non-DI aware scenarios for Data Protection in ASP.NET Core?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1350

Answers (1)

sergtk
sergtk

Reputation: 10974

I included 3 packages to the console project:

  • Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection
  • Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.Abstractions
  • Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.Extensions

This makes the console project working.

Upvotes: 4

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